Career Advice & Insights

Don’t let the challenges of a resume rewrite overwhelm you. Take a look at your skills and successful resumes to get your head in the game. She never had to look for work. As a Truman scholar and a top-notch statistics, marine biology and water-quality expert with two master’s degrees and a Ph.D., work looked … Read More

What grabbed the recruiter’s eye was the security pro’s certification, on top of his resume and smack dab in front of her face. CISSP: How’s that for a resume title? The acronym stands for Certified Information Systems Security Professional. Listing just the acronym without spelling it out, let alone using a more generic term such … Read More

Why unconventional resumes drive hiring managers and recruiters nuts. Steve Silberberg is into a lot of things: certified Wilderness First Responder; published in scientific journals; and, according to his database-driven, configurable, searchable online resume, maintains a collection of over 2,100 air sickness bags. Everybody hates this resume. Only about five hiring managers over the years … Read More

Improper dates in your job descriptions could keep recruiters from finding your resume. You’ve worked hard to establish a distinguished career. You worked hard to craft a resume to match. But all of the effort could be undone by something as seemingly insignificant as the dates on your resume. Little noticed on the paper document, … Read More

Make your resume more ”findable” on sites like Ladders — optimizing your Web site is very different from doing that to your resume. I often get questions about how to “optimize” resumes for search engines so that they will be “easier to find.” Most of the people who ask the question are already somewhat aware … Read More

Some career results are so over-the-top or irrelevant, they can skew your job chances. She moved through several rounds of interviews at a large financial institution, but the process eventually broke down. Was she unqualified? No. Lacking quantifiable achievements? Quite the contrary. In fact, she had insisted on listing on her resume her involvement with … Read More

The new year is the perfect time to reflect on milestones, refresh the accomplishments and performance numbers and put it all down in your resume, should you need one in 2011. Something felt wrong. The business development executive was concerned about the viability of his company. He and his career development coach, Chris Westfall, thought … Read More

Using color, though not on your resume, to stand out in your next job search will catch a hiring manager’s eye and separate you from the other candidates. Make your resume into your personal brand. Read More

Don’t reduce the font size and increase the margin on your resume to shrink it to two pages. How long should you resume be? Three-page resumes are certainly not extinct, but they should be rare. Professional resume writers urge their clients to first try to trim their resumes down to a maximum of two pages. … Read More